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Though not very uncommon juglandifer is not nearly so numerous as 

 albocinctus. The dentition of the two in my specimens is as follows : — 



F. WALL, o.m.z.s., 



Major, i.m.s. 



Chitral, 15iA March 1910. 



No. XXIII.— NOTES ON THE COLOUR OF THE COMMON 

 KEELBACK. 



Major Wall in his article on the Macropisthodon plumbicolor refers to Can- 

 tor's descriptive word " plumbicolor" as misleading, and states that the Com- 

 mon Keelback is always some shade of green. This, of course, is perfectly 

 true of the dorsal and costal scales, but the ventrals in all the young 1 

 have examined not a great number, unfortunately have been the exact 

 colour of plumbago, and for them plumbicolor is a most apt descriptive word. 



I should like very much to know whether young keelbacks are always 

 found with plumbaginous belly scales. 



If it is owing to the charasteristic, I have mentioned that Cantor used 



